the jodi arias trial is in black until wednesday. this means they're not in progress until wednesday. sorry for the -- to the headline news network for that but everyone is talking. well, almost everyone is still asking about the past two weeks of jodi on the stand. nbc's katy tur covering the story. you are back in l.a. while the trial's break and seen jodi on the stand for 17 days, what's the defense strategy here? >> reporter: well, all the jury knew about her is changing the story three times. she wasn't there the night that alexander was killed and then she was there finding pictures there on travis alexander's camera. she said masked intruders came in and now self defense. she had to take the stand to explain why she thinks it was self defense. how he was abusing her. much of that she claims was sexually. her attorneys want her to -- want her to seem as sympathetic as possible, to know her. they need to convince them that she was scared for her life. that travis alexander really was as she claims a sexual deviant and he was abu